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Flacourt (French pronunciation: [flakuʁ]) is a
commune in the
Yvelines department in the Île-de-France in north-central France.
Communes of the Yvelines...
- Étienne de
Flacourt (1607–1660) was a
French governor of Madagascar, born in Orléans in 1607. He was
named governor of
Madagascar by the
French East India...
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Elephant birds have been
extinct since at
least the 17th century. Étienne de
Flacourt, a
French governor of
Madagascar during the 1640s and 1650s, mentioned...
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Flacourt, Étienne de (1657). Le
Petit Catéchisme madéc****e-français.Paris;(1661).
Histoire de la
grande isle Madagascar.Paris, pp.197–202.
Flacourt,...
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reported elephant bird
sightings at
least in
folklore memory as Étienne de
Flacourt wrote in 1658. Its egg, live or subfossilised, was
known as
early as 1420...
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Compagnie de l’Orient,
alarmed by his actions, sent Étienne de
Flacourt to
replace him.
Flacourt returned to
France in 1654 and he was
killed by
Algerian pirates...
- back to the 17th century. In 1658,
French colonial governor Étienne de
Flacourt published a
description of a
pitcher plant in his
seminal work Histoire...
- an
animal allegedly from
southern Madagascar described by Étienne de
Flacourt in 1658 as a large, rare, leopard-like
carnivore that eats men and calves...
- now
defunct family Flacourtiaceae. The
generic name
honors Étienne de
Flacourt (1607–1660), a
governor of Madagascar. It
contains 23
species of shrubs...
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equipment and rules. For example, a 1658
account by
French governor Étienne de
Flacourt about a game pla**** by the
Sakalava people in
northwestern Madagascar is...
